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| x Deep Blue |
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Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 | White | Win |
Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM. On May 11, 1997, the machine won a six-game match by two wins to one with three draws against world champion Garry Kasparov. Kasparov accused IBM of cheating and demanded a rematch, but IBM...
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| x Garry Kasparov |
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Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 | Black | Loss |
Garry Kasparov (Russian: Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров; Russian pronunciation: [ˈɡarʲɪ ˈkʲiməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsparəf], born Garry Kimovich Weinstein, on 13 April 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union; now Azerbaijan) is a Russian former World Chess...
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Poole - HAL 9000 | Black | Win |
HAL 9000 is a fictional computer in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey saga. It was ranked #13 on a list of greatest film villains of all time on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains.
HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) is an...
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| x Frank Poole |
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Poole - HAL 9000 | White | Loss |
Frank Poole is a fictional character from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. In Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Poole was portrayed by Gary Lockwood.
Tom Hanks once expressed interest in directing a film version of 3001, in which he...
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| x Giulio Polerio |
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Giulio Cesare Polerio (ca. 1550, Lanciano - ca. 1610, Rome, reconstruction of places and dates by Adriano Chicco), was an Italian chess theoretician and player.
Name affixes used for him are l'Apruzzese, Giu[o]lio Cesare da Lanciano (Salvio/Walker),...
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| x Gioacchino Greco |
Gioachino Greco (1600 – c. 1634) was an Italian chess player and writer. Greco recorded some of the first chess games on record, 77 in total. His games, all against anonymous opponents ("NN"), were quite possibly constructs (Hooper & Whyld 1992),...
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| x Evgeny Sveshnikov |
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Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov (Jevgēņijs Svešņikovs) (born Cheliabinsk, February 11, 1950) is a Latvian International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer.
He played in his first USSR Chess Championship when he was just 17 years old and became an...
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| x Gennadi Timoshchenko | |||||
| x Emanuel Lasker |
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Lasker - Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889 | White | Win |
Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years. In his prime Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded...
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| x Horatio Caro |
Horatio Caro (5 July 1862 – 15 December 1920) was an English chess master.
Caro was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, but spent most of his chess career in Berlin, Germany. He played several matches. In 1892, he drew with Curt von Bardeleben (+2...
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| x José Raúl Capablanca |
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José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (November 19, 1888 – March 8, 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players of all time, and was renowned for his exceptional...
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| x Karen Asrian |
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Karen Asrian (24 April 1980 – 9 June 2008) was an Armenian chess Grandmaster.
As of the October 2006 FIDE rating list, his Elo rating was 2634, tied for the fourth highest rank in Armenia.
He won the Armenian Chess Championship in 1999, 2007, and...
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| x Anatoly Karpov |
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Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Russian: Анатолий Евгеньевич Карпов Anatolij Evgen'evič Karpov; born May 23, 1951) is a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was world champion from 1975 to 1985, played three more matches...
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| x Judit Polgár |
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Judit Polgár (born July 23, 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history. In 1991, she achieved the title of Grandmaster (GM) at the age of 15 years and 4 months. She was, at that time, the...
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| x Boris Spassky |
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Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij) (Russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский) (born January 30, 1937) is a Soviet-French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972.
Spassky won the Soviet Chess...
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| x Jan Timman |
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Jan Timman (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The...
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| x Alexander Alekhine |
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Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Але́хин, pronounced [alʲɛkˈsandr̠ alʲɛkˈsandr̠ovʲitɕ aˈlʲɛxin]) (October 31, 1892 – March 24, 1946) was the fourth World Chess Champion.
By the age of twenty-two, he was already...
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| x Vladimir Kramnik |
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Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник) (born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007.
In October 2000,...
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| x Max Euwe |
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Machgielis (Max) Euwe (last name is pronounced /ø:wə/) (May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion (1935–1937). Euwe also served as President of...
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| x Milan Vidmar |
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Milan Vidmar (22 June, 1885 – 9 October, 1962) was a Slovene electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, philosopher, and writer. He was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.
He was born in a middle class...
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| x Tigran Petrosian |
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Tigran Petrosian (Armenian: Տիգրան Պետրոսյան) (June 17, 1929 – August 13, 1984) was World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969.
He is often known by the Russian version of his name, Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (Russian: Тигран Вартанович Петросян). He...
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| x Alexander Beliavsky |
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Alexander Genrikhovich Beliavsky (sometimes transliterated as Belyavsky, born December 17, 1953) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
Beliavsky was born in Lviv. He currently lives in Slovenia and he plays for the Olympic team there. He is noted for...
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| x Maurice Ashley |
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Maurice Ashley (born March 6, 1966 in St. Andrew, Jamaica) is a chess grandmaster. He is the first and as of 2009 only African-American grandmaster. In the October 2006 rating lists, he had a FIDE rating of 2465, and a USCF rating of 2520 at...
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| x Yasser Seirawan |
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Yasser Seirawan (Arabic: ياسر سيروان) (born March 24, 1960) is a chess grandmaster and 4-time US-champion. He was winner of the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. Seirawan is also a respected chess author and commentator.
He was born in...
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| x Raymond Keene |
Raymond Dennis Keene OBE (born 29 January 1948) is an English chess Grandmaster. He won the British Chess Championship in 1971, and was the first player from England to earn a Grandmaster norm, in 1974. In 1976 he became the second Englishman,...
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| x Mikhail Tal |
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Mikhail Tal (Latvian: Mihails Tāls; Russian: Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, Michail Nechem'evič Tal', [mʲixʌˈiɫ nʲɪˈxɛmʲɪvʲit͡ɕ ˈtal]; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal) (November 9, 1936 – June 28, 1992) was a Soviet-Latvian chess player...
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| x Viktor Korchnoi |
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Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (also Korchnoy, Kortchnoy, Kortschnoi, etc.; pronounced in the original Russian as "karch NOY"; Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, born March 23, 1931, in Leningrad, USSR, defected to the Netherlands, and has resided in Switzerland...
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| x Nigel Short |
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Nigel David Short MBE (born 1 June 1965 in Leigh, Lancashire) is often regarded as the strongest British chess player of the 20th century. He became a Grandmaster at age 19, and challenged for the World Chess Championship against Garry Kasparov at...
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| x Xie Jun |
Xie Jun (simplified Chinese: 谢军; traditional Chinese: 謝軍; pinyin: Xiè Jūn; born October 30, 1970, Baoding, Hebei) is a chess grandmaster from China. She had two reigns as Women's World Chess Champion, from 1991 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2001....
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| x Susan Polgar |
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Susan Polgar (born April 19, 1969, as Polgár Zsuzsanna and often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-born American chess player. She is also a chess writer and promoter and the head of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence at Texas Tech...
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| x David Bronstein |
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Immortal losing game | Black | Loss |
David Ionovich Bronstein (Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a world-class chess grandmaster and highly renowned writer. Described by peers as a creative genius and master of tactics, Bronstein continually...
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| x Tony Miles |
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Anthony John Miles (23 April 1955 in Edgbaston, Birmingham – 12 November 2001 in Harborne, Birmingham) was an English chess Grandmaster.
Miles was born in Edgbaston in Birmingham, and he learned the game of chess at an early age. In 1968 he won the...
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| x Mikhail Botvinnik |
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Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (Russian: Михаи́л Моисе́евич Ботви́нник, pronounced [mʲixaˈiɫ̺ mʌiˈs̺ʲɛjɛvʲitʃʲ bʌt̺ˈvʲin̺n̻ʲik]) (August 17 [O.S. August 4] 1911 – May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and three-time World...
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| x Luke McShane |
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Luke James McShane (born 7 January 1984) is an English chess player. His peak Elo rating was 2656 in April 2004, at which time he was ranked 42nd in the world. As of October 2007 his rating is 2592 and he is ranked fourth in England.
McShane was...
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| x Vasily Smyslov |
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Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (Russian: Васи́лий Васильевич Смысло́в) (born March 24, 1921, in Moscow) is a Russian chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.
He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight...
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| x Viswanathan Anand |
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Viswanathan Anand (pronounced [ʋiɕˈʋəˌnɑːˌt̪ʰən ɑːnˌənd̪], Tamil: விசுவநாதன் ஆனந்த்) (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess Grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion.
Anand held the FIDE World Chess Championship from 2000 to 2002, at a...
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| x Paul Keres |
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Paul Keres (January 7, 1916 – June 5, 1975), was an Estonian chess grandmaster.
Keres narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on five occasions. He won the 1938 AVRO tournament, which led to negotiations for a World Championship...
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| x Leonid Stein |
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Leonid Zakharovich Stein (Russian: Леонид Захарович Штейн; November 12, 1934 – July 4, 1973), Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine. He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s (1963, 1965, and 1966), and was among the world's top ten players...
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| x Zhang Zhong |
Zhang Zhong (simplified Chinese: 章钟; traditional Chinese: 章鍾; pinyin: Zhāng Zhōng; born September 5, 1978 in Chongqing) is a Chinese chess grandmaster who now plays for Singapore.
In 1998, he became China's 7th Grandmaster.
He is married to WGM Li...
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| x Ruslan Ponomariov |
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Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukrainian: Руслан Пономарьов; Russian: Русла́н Пономарёв) (born October 11, 1983) is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE world champion.
On the January 2009 FIDE Elo rating list Ponomariov had a rating of 2726, making him...
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| x Bent Larsen |
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Jørgen Bent Larsen (born March 4, 1935, Thisted) is a Danish chess Grandmaster. He has been a six-time Danish champion, and a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on four occasions: 1965, 1968, 1971, and 1977. He won three Interzonal...
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| x Eugenio Torre |
Eugenio Torre (born November 4, 1951) is a chess Grandmaster. He is considered the strongest chess player the Philippines has ever produced during the 1980s and 1990s period, following the heels of Fischer era Filipino chess champions NM Ramon...
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| x Veselin Topalov |
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Veselin Topalov (pronounced [vɛsɛˈlin toˈpɑlof]; Bulgarian: Веселин Топалов) (born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE world chess champion. He currently (October 2009) has the highest rating in the world.
Topalov became...
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| x Alexander Kotov |
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Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Ко́тов; 12 August [O.S. 30 July] 1913 – January 8, 1981) was a Soviet chess grandmaster and author. He was a Soviet champion, a two-time world title Candidate, and a prolific chess author....
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| x Michael Adams |
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Michael Adams (born November 17, 1971 in Truro, Cornwall, England, UK) is a British Grandmaster of chess. His highest ranking is world number 4, achieved several times from October 2000 to October 2002. and he has achieved a peak Elo rating of 2755....
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| x Alexei Shirov |
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Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov (Aleksejs Širovs, Алексей Дмитриевич Широв) (born July 4, 1972 in Riga, Latvia) is a chess grandmaster. On the September 2009 FIDE rating list he was ranked #18 among active players in the world with an ELO rating of 2730....
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| x Reuben Fine |
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Reuben Fine (October 11, 1914 – March 26, 1993) was one of the strongest chess players in the world from the mid 1930s through the 1940s, an International Grandmaster, psychologist and author of books on both chess and psychology. Fine won five...
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| x Jaan Ehlvest |
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Jaan Ehlvest (born 14 October 1962 at Tallinn, Estonia) is a chess player, who was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1987 and was named Estonian sportsman of the year in 1987 and 1989. Since 2006, he has represented the United States of...
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| x Jonathan Penrose |
Jonathan Penrose, OBE (born 7 October 1933, in Colchester) is an English chess player, emeritus Grandmaster, and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1983) who won the British Chess Championship ten times between 1958 and 1969. He is the...
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| x Magnus Carlsen |
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Magnus Øen Carlsen (born Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen on 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy.
On 26 April 2004 Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 27 days, making him the third youngest...
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| x Péter Lékó |
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Péter Lékó (Serbian: Петер Леко) (born September 8, 1979 in Subotica, Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian chess player. He became a grandmaster in 1994 at the age of 14 years (a world record at the time). In the January 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating...
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| x John Nunn |
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John Denis Martin Nunn (born 25 April 1955 in London) is one of England's strongest chess players, and once belonged to the world's top ten. He was twice world champion in chess problem solving. He is a chess writer and publisher, and a...
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| x Teimour Radjabov |
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Teimour Radjabov, also spelled Teymur Rajabov (Azerbaijani: Teymur Rəcəbov; born 12 March 1987 in Baku, Azerbaijan is a leading Azerbaijani chess player. On the April 2009 FIDE list, Radjabov has an Elo rating of 2756, ranking fifth in the world and...
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| x Jon Speelman |
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Jonathan Simon Speelman (born 2 October 1956) is an English chess player, a Grandmaster, a mathematician, and a chess writer.
He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He studied mathematics at university, earning his Doctorate.
Winner of the...
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| x Frank Marshall |
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Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944), was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909-1936, and was one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century.
Marshall was born in New York City, and lived in...
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| x Akiba Rubinstein |
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Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (12 December 1882, in Stawiski, Poland – 15 March 1961 in Antwerp, Belgium) was a famous Polish chess Grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century.
He was Jewish, and his family planned for him to become a rabbi, yet...
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| x Efim Bogoljubow |
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Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov (Bogoljubov, Bogoljubow) (Russian: Ефи́м Дми́триевич Боголю́бов) (April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952) was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world...
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| x Vladimir Hakobyan |
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Vladimir Akopian (Russian: Владимир Акопян; born December 7, 1971 in Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) is a leading Armenian chess Grandmaster. In Armenia, his surname is more commonly written Hakobyan (Armenian: Վլադիմիր Հակոբյան)...
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| x Wolfgang Unzicker |
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Wolfgang Unzicker (26 June 1925 – 20 April 2006) was one of the strongest German chess Grandmasters from 1945 to about 1970. He decided against making chess his profession, choosing law instead. Unzicker was at times the world's strongest amateur...
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